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"And then his noise falls completely silent-And he stops struggling-And looking right into my eyes-He dies.My Todd dies."

"The Waystone was his, just as the third silence was his. This was appropriate, as it was the greatest silence of the three, wrapping the others inside itself. It was deep and wide as autumn's ending. It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die."

"Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand."

"Man is dust. Rue is rain. Life is mud."
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"Oh let me live my own! and die so too! ("To live and die is all I have to do:") Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please."

"If I am right Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay If I am wrong O teach my heart To find that better way!"

"Then say not man's imperfect, Heav'n in fault;. Say rather, man's as perfect as he ought."

"Happy the man, whose wish and careA few paternal acres bound,Content to breathe his native airIn his own ground."

"Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound,Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found."

"Nature to all things fixed the limits fitAnd wisely curbed proud man's pretending wit.As on the land while here the ocean gains.In other parts it leaves wide sandy plainsThus in the soul while memory prevails,The solid power of understanding failsWhere beams of warm imagination play,The memory's soft figures melt awayOne science only will one genius fit,So vast is art, so narrow human witNot only bounded to peculiar arts,But oft in those confined to single partsLike kings, we lose the conquests gained before,By vain ambition still to make them moreEach might his several province well command,Would all but stoop to what they understand."

"I have as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity as I hope that the priests can save one who has not."
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